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RAIL.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 20. 1911.

Patented Apr. 16, 1912.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AARON G. JONES AND PETER K. MILLAR, 0F CORNISI-I, OKLAHOMA.

RAIL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 20, 1911.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, AARON G. JONES and PETER K. MILLAR, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Cornish, in the county of Jefferson and Stateof Oklahoma, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rails, ofwhich the following is a specifica tion.

This invention relates to improvements in railway rails, the object ofthe invention being to provide a substantially continuous rail of apeculiar construction whereby each of the rails has one of its endsformed with a pocket and the opposite end formed with a projectingtongue adapted to be received within the pocket of the contiguous rail,thus providing means for preventing the gripping of the rails, thelateral movement of the same at their points of juncture, as Well aspreventing the bending of the rails due to the, rolling stock passingthereover, thus materially adding to the strength of the rails, as wellas to the comfort of the traveling public.

With the above objects in view, and others which will appear as thenature of the invention progresses, the. improvement resides in thenovel construction and combination of parts hereinafter fully describedand claimed.

In the drawings, accompanying this specification, there has beenillustrated a simple and preferred embodiment of the improve ment, andin which drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of a pair of railsconstructed in accordance with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a topplan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view upon theline 33 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4: is a transverse sectional view taken upon theline H of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the ends of therail. Fig. 6 is a similar view of the opposite end of the rail. Fig. 7is a transverse sectional view taken upon the line 55 of Fig. 2.

Among the objects of the present invention is the provision of a railjoint wherein fish plates and analogous securing devices are dispensedwith, and in the accompanying drawings, the numerals 1 and 2 designatethe meeting ends of a pair of rails. It may here be stated that each ofthe rails 1 and 2 has its opposite ends of a formation as illustrated inthe figures of the drawing, but for the purpose of illustration, onlythe ends of the rails are shown.

The rails 1 and 2 each comprise a head 3, a web 4 and a base flange 5.The web 4 of the rail section 1, adjacent the end of the said section,is of a greater thickness than are those of the ordinary rails, and boththe upper and lower faces of the base flange 5 are likewise enlarged.These enlargements project beyond the ends of the rail proper, but areintegrally formed therewith, and the said extending portions are adaptedto serve as a chair or pocket for the end of the coacting rail, as willbe hereinafter more fully set forth. The pocket which may be designatedby the numeral 9 is provided with an abrupt shoulder 8 arranged near thevertical longitudinally extending walls of the said pocket, the saidshoulder being the terminal of the head of the rail, and the centralportion of the web. The space between the web enlargements beyond theshoulder is of a width sufficient to snugly receive the web 4 of thecoacting rail, while the head of the rail, as well as the centralportion of the web, are recessed to provide an abrupt transverse wall 6,and a vertically straight longitudinal wall 7. The pocket providedbetween the enlarged longitudinally extending web, and the wall 7 is ofa size sufficient to snugly receive a reduced extension or tongue 15provided upon the extremity of a cooperating rail 2. This reducedportion 15 is formed by recessing the extremity of the rail 2 to providesubstantially one-half of a rail, or in other words, the extremity ofthe rail may be sawed centrally and longitudinally a distance equal tothe distance between the shoulders 6 and 8 of the rail 1, the recessedportion 15 terminating in the right angular shoulder 13. The end of thereduced portion 15, which may be designated by the numeral 16 is adaptedto abut against the wall 6, when the section 2 is inserted in the pocket9, while the shoulder 13 abuts against the shoulder 8.

The web enlargements 10 of the rail section 1 are provided withtransversely arranged registering openings, the same ada pted to alinewith similar openings formed in the tongue and in the web of the railsection 2, and all of these openings are adapted to receive suitablesecuring elements, such as the ordinary bolts and nuts.

Having thus fully described the said invention, what we claim isz- Thecombination of the meeting ends of a pair of railway rails, one of saidrails having enlarged longitudinally extending integrally formed Webs,and base flange, the said enlarged portion being recessed to provide apocket, the said pocket, comprising a straight Wall, and an oppositeshouldered Wall, the reduced portion of the said shouldered Wallincluding a portion of the head of said rail ends, the second rail endhaving its extremity laterally reduced to provide an v extending tongue,the said tongue adapted to be received Within the reduced portion of thepocket, and the portion of the rail beyond the tongue adapted to bereceived Within the enlarged portion of the pocket, and means forretaining the rail end Within the pocket.

In testimony whereof We affix our signatures in presence of twoWitnesses.

AARON G. JONES. PETER K. MILLAR.

Vitnesses J. J. CLENGSENY, O. O. MORRIS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents. Washington, I). 0.

